Joanna Chen

Joanna Chen has written for Newsweek, The Daily Beast, The Los Angeles Review of Books and The Millions, among others. Her poetry and translations have been published most recently in Poet Lore, Word Riot and The Bakery. She blogs at www.joannachen.com and tweets at @joannachen1.

Working as a journalist during the second intifada compelled me both to acknowledge my Jewish identity and to obliterate it - a disguise mechanism with which Steven Sotloff would have been all too familiar.

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